Ahmed Salim Swedan

Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan (April 1960-1 January 2009), also known as Sheikh Ahmed Salam Suweidan, Sheikh Bahamadi, Ahmed Ally, Bahamad, Ahmed the Tall, and Abu Yahya al-Kini, was a Kenyan Al-Qaeda member.

Biography
Ahmed Salim Swedan was born in Mombasa, Kenya in April 1960. He formerly managed a trucking business, before becoming an Islamist who wanted to serve in a jihad. In 1998 he purchased the Toyota and Nissan trucks used by Al-Qaeda in the 1998 US embassy bombings, and in October 2001 he was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list.

In 2006, Sheikh Ahmed Salim was arrested by police in Pakistan, but he escaped while being transferred to American custody. He was listed a CIA "secret prisoner" by Amnesty International, but he remained on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist list on 6 July 2007.

Death
On 1 January 2009 Swedan and Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, a fellow Kenyan, was killed in a US UAV drone strike in an Al-Qaeda safehouse.